Remembering Spain's RevolutionAgainst The Current vol. 143

On the second page of Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell's memoir of the Spanish Revolution, he writes, I had come to Spain with some notion of writing newspaper articles, but I joined the militia almost immediately, because at that time and in that atmosphere it seemed the only conceivable thing to do. The Anarchists were still in virtual control of Catalonia and the revolution was still in full swing .it was the first time that I had ever been in a town where the working class was in the saddle.